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A Look Back • The New Year's Eve kidnapping of a Busch family heir in 1930

Adolphus "Buppie" Orthwein, 13, was held for 20 hours and released after the kidnapper's mortified father intervened.

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Retired BigLaw partner tells tales of lawyers, FBI and kidnapping epidemic of 1930s in new book

Retired BigLaw partner tells tales of lawyers, FBI and kidnapping epidemic of 1930s in new book
Carolyn Cox. Photo by Bonnie E. Johnson.
Carolyn Cox tells me what she loved the most about practicing law was “hands down trying to figure out what the facts were.” She adds with a chuckle, “I was always so excited when we would get a delivery of big boxes of documents.”
Cox retired in 2009. But those beloved deliveries didn’t stop. She wrote the recently published book
The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America. Her six-year effort included making more than 150 Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI.

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Retired BigLaw partner tells tales of lawyers, FBI and kidnapping epidemic of 1930s in new book

Retired BigLaw partner tells tales of lawyers, FBI and kidnapping epidemic of 1930s in new book
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A Look Back • The New Year's Eve kidnapping of a Busch family heir in 1930

Charles Abernathy was tracked down in Kansas City by Harry T. Brundidge, a reporter for the St. Louis Star. Brundidge won renown seven years before for helping to crack the Eganâs Rats, a criminal gang. This time, he scored a full confession from Charles Abernathy. The Star filled its front page with the scoop.
Buppie, meanwhile, already had met with reporters shortly after he was washed and fed. He said the kidnapper gave him poorly cooked scrambled eggs but added, âHe treated me pretty well.â
Charles Abernathy pleaded guilty and drew 15 years. Charges against his father were dropped. The kidnapper was paroled after eight years, returned to business in St. Louis and died in 1963 at age 60.

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